Two issues found by exercising the scripts end to end:
- `git checkout -B` refuses to run when the worktree is dirty, so
`make apply FORCE=1` aborted in exactly the situation FORCE exists
to handle. Use `checkout -f -B`; the non-forced path has already
verified the tree is clean, so forcing changes nothing there.
- The commit-count guard claimed the user forgot `make rebuild`, but
deleting a patch file on purpose trips it identically. Say both,
and document the FORCE=1 form in the README's "drop the example
patches" instructions, which would otherwise have failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
